Im jon fortt withing canni car. Google is over hot water in the power over the diblgtal Advertising Market and now allegation thats theyve been Work Together quietly to maintain that power they may not be dead after all reuters out with a report saying that self driving car may be just three years away. Julia, to talk first about this advertising thing, google and facebook that has to be what comes to mind when you by this two powerful Companies Potentially even talking about the power on regular basis. Thats a new potentially significant rink will in this conversation about big tech. Certainly and big tech is really facing so much scrutiny right now from an antitrust perspective. We think about the way that google dominates search and the way they have so much power in terms of youtube they control the machinery and the way so much advertising is sold online. The idea that facebook would be committing to spend half a billion drarz going through that, going through that machinery, just
For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves
Joining me youre making a point of whether or not we need to see a reconstitution in what we have called f. A. A. N. G. We have had a reemerging. Time to look at some of the lesser known tech names and the smaller teches that are just getting started. We have two of those on the show today. A cloud air company is up big after reporting the latest quarter, and big commerce is finding its footing after its first earnings report. If youre an investor out there and you have gotten motion sickness from teslas stock lain changes. Coming up in just a couple minutes, right thats a great point, jon this year were hearing more about some of the other names you brought up but in one way i would say these are not necessarily smaller tech investors are getting nervous even though we have seen very, very good quarters from the like of docusign and c scale. Were seeing that perhaps that dont fill these excised expectations people are starting to wonder have they run up too that is a good place to beg
That. Right i think that the shock value of that is maybe more, lets say, the bark versus the bite i think that theres a belief that we could get a lot a much better picture of what the Health Situation is going to be like in november so its a little premature to be able to say what the president is saying and its certainly contrary to what he was saying about the idea that we do have a vaccine very soon. If we have a vaccine very soon why do we have to delay the election and why does it have to be crooked i think you cant have it both ways you can have the vaccine come out and have a gd election or you must know that the vaccine is not going to come out and you will have what he just tweeted but whatever it sows chaos and chaos is bad for the stock market. We did get some promising vaccine news out of j j as they move to human trials in the u. S. And belgium the earnings which we will talk a lot about this morning are basically shaming the analysts, virtually surpassing the entire ran
Coming up for the rest of the hour. The chairman and ceo of train technologies trane technologies, they do hvac. We will talk about how you recondition all of the airconditioning units that we have to allow us to basically eat and drink inside. A really important conversation as we think what will happen as we approach the autumn and fall. What will happen to the service side of the economy. The banks are in big focus. 93 man sachs reporting a surge in revenue on the stocks and bond trading in the Second Quarter. Highlights is our bloomberg wall street reporter. They have a lot of questions about the m a environment. Goldman the lead m a advisor. The backlogn saying is higher, but he expects activity to continue in the next two to four quarters. , but we will see them come back. There are a lot of uncertainties. One question was about the election season. Solomon warned that is a ways away. As we know in the u. S. There are major uncertainties with how largescale deals are viewed among